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    Ryan O'Donnell

    Owner & Restaurateur, GEMINI

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    Portrait of Ryan O'Donnell

    Portrait of Ryan O'Donnell

    i. Biography

    Ryan O’Donnell is the Founder and CEO of Ballyhoo Hospitality, the Chicago-based restaurant group he launched after opening Gemini in Lincoln Park in 2009 with his wife, Anna O’Donnell. Gemini is the anchor property tied to his ownership profile, and Ballyhoo credits the O’Donnells with building the company from that first restaurant into a neighborhood-rooted hospitality group. O’Donnell as the owner of Gemini, and Gemini opened in 2009 in Lincoln Park.

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